Have you ever had a horn pimple? You know what I am talking about...the pimple that forms above your eyebrows smack dab in the middle of your forehead…the kind that is a massive mound that looks like at any moment a horn will break through and you will claim you true status as a unicorn. [...]
Month: November 2009
Unplugged…
Unplugged...that has been the state of my computer today and I must say it was blissfully liberating. It wasn't like it was an act of curiosity or defiance on my part - the unplugging that is. It was a necessity for painting that's all. And oddly over the length of the day I became increasingly [...]
Vacancy Announcement – Reality Officer IV
I was skimming my email before beginning in earnest on the task of cleaning out the 500+ backlog I still have from the time I was in Florida and I ran across this email subject line from the State of ND: Vacancy Announcement - Realty Officer IV (Bismarck). I was not paying full attention I [...]
Friday the 13th…Tuscany style
Well, it appears I made it through another Friday the 13th without incident. There was a time when I viewed Friday the 13ths as bad luck and I had a series of mishaps that had occurred over the years that I would point to as evidence of said bad 13th luck. That was before I [...]
Wafting aromas…
As I was waking up this morning I realized that my house smelled like bacon. Mr. Carol told me I should turn the range fan on yesterday when I was cooking the bacon for the BLT sandwiches we had for dinner, but I was having no part of it. I like the smell of bacon [...]
Today, we honor…
Noah in Kandahar Fort Drum, 10th Mountain Division Today, we honor those who put our collective way of life before their own lives. Today, we honor those who have had to do, see and try to move forward from the unimaginable horrors of conflict and war. Today, we honor those who have carried the disproportionate [...]
My bumper cannot commit, but my blog delivers…
I was working my way through an old stack of miscellaneous papers and articles that I have kept for years thinking I needed them (I blame this sudden burst of organizational focus on Prairie Woman who recently laid out an entire organizational strategy that seemed quite logical). At any rate, I ran across a series [...]
THE NEW FORTY 